The 1983 adaptation of Martin Cruz Smith's best-selling spy novel Gorky Park won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture; supporting actors Joanna Pacula and Michael Elphick were nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA awards, respectively. Variety wrote that "William Hurt is superb as a Moscow militia detective caught between his desires to be simply a good cop and the unfathomable motives of the secret Soviet government." Based on the novel by Ken Follett, Eye of the Needle (1981) centers on a German spy in England (Donald Sutherland) who has vital information about the D-Day invasion. He travels to an isolated island off the coast of Scotland to meet a U-boat, where he encounters an intrepid young woman (Kate Nelligan) and her paralyzed husband. "I admired the movie" wrote Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times. "It is made with quiet competence, and will remind some viewers of the Hitchcock who made The Thirty-Nine Steps and Foreign Correspondent."